Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Cheapest Source of Resistance Crystals (For Cashing Players)

(Posted by Ashira of the DolyGames Team) (newly joined)

At the moment, we have three ways to obtain resistance crystals in the game via cashing. It is every player’s individual choice to cash for something or
not, but if one decides to cash on something, it is a good idea to find the cheapest source at least.

The three sources are:

Level 1 Resistance Crystal (Regular Shop)

Hot Event Resistance Crystal Chests

Higher-Quality Treasure Hunt

Let us explore the cost for each of these sources – the assumption here is that the player wants to obtain a large number of resistance crystals in a
relatively short period of time, so for Treasure Hunt, I will only consider Orange/Gold Treasure Hunt.

1)
Regular Shop

2)
Hot Event Chests

As always, R2 does not give us the exact drop rates for the chest items, so we have to rely on empirical data. For the purpose of this article, I got 200
of these event chests from the shop and recorded the statistics. I separated the 200 chests in four subsamples to see how diverse the results can be
(clearly, the results are not completely accurate with a sample size of 200, but it can be considered a good approximation). In the table, ‘Sample 1’
refers to the first 50 chests opened, ‘Sample 2’ refers to the second 50 chests opened, etc.

Sample #

30 Crystals

40 Crystals

100 Crystals

300 Crystals

600 Crystals

1000 Crystals

Total

Sample 1

28

14

2

4

2

0

4000

Sample 2

24

18

3

3

2

0

3840

Sample 3

24

15

7

4

0

0

3220

Sample 4

26

11

6

4

3

0

4820

Drop Rate

51%

29%

9%

7.5%

3.5%

0%

15880

So, as you can see, from 200 chests for 4000 Balens, I got 15880 resistance crystal shards. Roughly half of the chests dropped only 30 crystals and I got
not a single drop with 1000 crystals in this sample, which I consider unusual based on previous experience with these chests. So those 15880 shards are
probably a rather low number for 200 chests opened.

Now since I spent 4000 Balens and got 15880 shards (which is equal 158.8 Level 1 Resistance Crystals), this makes the price for one Level 1 Resistance
Crystal equal to 4000/158.8 = 25.18 Balens. So the price here is just over a sixth of the price they charge in the regular shop.

3) Orange Treasure Hunt

For orange Treasure Hunt, it is incorrect to take the entire rewards from it as a reward for the Balens spent, because it is possible to do green Treasure
Hunt completely free. So we can only consider the difference in rewards of orange Treasure Hunt versus green Treasure Hunt as reward for the Balens spent.

I make two assumptions for the calculations below:

I assume that a team of four people does a full orange Treasure Hunt (i.e. 5 orange maps) and that each of the four people gets the final map
every 4th day, which means that every day a single player gets 5/4 = 1.25 orange maps.

I assume that on average 2 out of the 5 summoned bosses (i.e. 40%) are elite bosses. This is an estimate based on experience in the game.

Now let us first calculate the rewards you get for green Treasure Hunt under the assumptions made:

A normal green boss in a party of 4 gives 36crystal shards, and an elite green boss in a party of 4 gives 48 crystal
shards. Since we assumed that 2 out of the 5 bosses are elites, this results in a reward of 3 * 36 + 2 * 48 = 208 crystal shards.

For orange Treasure Hunt, the calculation is a bit more complex, since there is an additional bonus if you summon the orange boss yourself (as
opposed to teammates summoning it). In a party of 4, a normal orange boss summoned by a teammate gives 108crystal shards, a normal orange
boss summoned by you gives 144crystal shards, an elite orange boss summoned by a teammate also gives 144 crystal shards,
and an elite orange boss summoned by you gives 192crystal shards. Using the assumptions made above (that you – on average – get 1.25 out
of the 5 maps each day and that 40% of the summoned bosses are elites), this results in the following table:

Conclusion: So if I want to spend 150 Balens per day on Resistances, what should I do?

Never ever even think about getting those crystals from regular shop, for the 150 Balens you would only get 1.03 Level 1 Resistance
Crystals.

Doing Orange Treasure Hunt, the 150 Balens give you 4.59 Level 1 Resistance Crystals. You have no other way to gain free crystals though,
since you can only do 5 treasure maps for rewards per day.

Purchasing the Hot Event chests, the 150 Balens give you 5.96 Level 1 Resistance Crystals. However, you can also gain more free crystals
on the same day, since you can do 5 green treasure maps, which gives you an additional 2.08 Level 1 Resistance Crystals, as calculated
above. So this gives you a total of 8.04 Level 1 Resistance Crystals per day.

In conclusion, if you have a limited amount of Balens to spend, your best option to gain resistance crystals fast are the Hot Event chests + doing green
Treasure Hunt. The advantage of this strategy is even more severe than displayed above, since you also get quite a bit of gold with the purchased Hot Event
chests, and you avoid the trouble of finding a party for doing orange Treasure Hunt (which – compared to finding a party for green Treasure Hunt – can be
really time-consuming). That said, keep in mind that the calculations are based on a relatively small sample of 200 purchased chests and that with Hot
Event chests buying only a small amount of them involves a risk of getting really unlucky and a chance of getting really lucky – so if you only have a very
limited budget to spend on these chests (say, you would buy only 20 chests) AND you are a very risk-averse person, this strategy might not be appealing to you.